Spamassassin works but not with MS

[Julian Field]

At 17:20 18/10/2002, you wrote:
>Applying the same spam message to SA 2.43 gives the following header:
>
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-157.6, required
>4,AWL, FREE_INVESTMENT, FREE_MONEY, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,
>SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, US_DOLLARS_3)
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-17.8, required
>5,AWL)
>
>I would like to use AWL but it doesn't look like that's in the cards for
>me :-(

As (a) you want to use AWL, (b) it appears to be using AWL, and (c) the 
scores are negative (because of the high negative score from appearing in 
the AWL), what's the problem?

It seems to be working just as expected. Or am I missing something obvious?


>Thanks,
>Stephen
>
>On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 08:30, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> > IIRC, SA 2.42's AWL is broken... upgrade SpamAssassin to 2.43. 2.43's main
> > reason to be was to fix this bug.
> >
> > More info on SA's page & mailing list.
> >
> > El 18 Oct 2002 a las 8:25, Stephen Lee escribió:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 02:33, Peter Peters wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:47:10 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >I'm running MS 3.24-1 with SA 2.42 on Trustix 1.5/Perl 5.6.1. It 
> appears
> > > > >that SA correctly identifies spam but through some interaction 
> with MS,
> > > > >the message is not tagged as spam. Here's an example header:
> > > > >
> > > > >X-Spam-Flag: YES
> > > > >X-Spam-Level: Spam-Level SSSSSSSSSSS
> > > > >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.42 (1.115.2.14-2002-10-04-exp)
> > > > >X-Spam-Report: 11.40 hits, 5 required;
> > > >
> > > > I didn't find any indication your SA uses whitelisting.
> > >
> > > But the auto-whitelist file is getting larger and the file timestamp is
> > > current. Doesn't that mean SA is using whitelisting?
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> > > > >X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.5, 
> required 5,
> > > > >     AWL)
> > > >
> > > > The MS version of SA uses AWL.
> > >
> > > Yes, I intended to use the AWL feature. The SA docs say that auto white
> > > listing is turned on with the "-a" switch. I presume that turning on AWL
> > > somehow passes that request onto SA?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stephen
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mariano Absatz
> > El Baby
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
> >          -- Isaac Asimov
> >
>--
>splee at spl-linux.com
>www.spl-linux.com

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